People At Pyramid

People at Pyramid is the weekly Pyramid Club of Philadelphia podcast spotlighting members, their expertise, and the best ways to collaborate. Each episode introduces a different Pyramid Club member, what they do, who they help, and how to connect for referrals, partnerships, and warm introductions. If you’re a Philadelphia professional looking to grow relationships inside the Club, subscribe and start meeting the people who can help you build your network and your business.

People At Pyramid is a business podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 39 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

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  Episode #12

  Chemical Engineering and Working Abroad, W/ Joel Shertok

  Sep 22, 20269 min

  Be a guest on People at Pyramid: https://feeds.transistor.fm/people-at-pyramid Five decades of chemical engineering, the plants he was called in to rescue, and why he reads history to understand the AI boom, with our member Joel Shertok. This week on People at Pyramid, we're spotlighting our member Joel Shertok, a chemical engineer and the president of Process Industries Consultants in Newark, Delaware. Joel has spent 50 years in the field, and he has the stories to prove it. His work has always come down to two jobs: take a process a chemist developed and scale it up to commercial production, or walk into a plant that has started misbehaving and figure out why. He tells us about a membrane-filter line that suddenly began turning out unusable product. The culprit turned out to be a supplier that had changed a raw material to get around a patent fight and decided it was too small a detail to mention. That small detail cost tens of millions of dollars to engineer around. Then the supplier switched back. Joel's career spans petrochemicals, advanced composites, carbon fiber, biotech, and filtration, and clients from zero-revenue startups to companies worth $100 million. He got into the field after reading a book called So You Want to Be a Chemical Engineer, comparing starting salaries, and making a very practical decision. Decades later, when his company told him it was time to retire, he simply started consulting, and the clients called him. No marketing, no sales. Away from the lab, Joel is a history buff, and he reads about the end of the Weimar Republic and the crash of 1873 with a clear eye on the present. Ask him about today's AI boom and he will tell you how he thinks it ends. Meet Joel, and hear five decades of the chemical industry in one conversation. CHAPTERS: 0:00 - Meet Joel Shertok, Chemical Engineer 1:10 - When a Good Process Starts Making Garbage 4:30 - Consulting From Startups to $100M Firms 7:00 - History, Bubbles, and the AI Boom GUEST LINKS: Process Industries Consultants: https://processindconsultants.com Joel Shertok on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/joelshertok/ ABOUT PEOPLE AT PYRAMID: People at Pyramid is the Pyramid Club's member spotlight podcast. Every episode, we sit down with one of our members to hear what they do, what drives them, and the stories that make them worth knowing. Hosted by Vince Quinn. SUBSCRIBE for a new member spotlight every other week. CONNECT: Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/people-at-pyramid/id1784545290 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7alEumoeEpbqgHzaugBPLZ Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdd93VlJAwBR_m7jDhPxq3agoS8iLuT4G People at Pyramid: https://feeds.transistor.fm/people-at-pyramid Vince Quinn on LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/vincequinn Interested in being featured on People at Pyramid? Register here Want help with your podcast? E-mail Vince Quinn vq@sbxproductions.com Want to learn about Pyramid Club Membership? Click here.

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  Episode #11

  Project Manager by Day, Movie Buff by Night W/ Elena Varela

  Aug 25, 202613 min

  Be a guest on People at Pyramid: https://feeds.transistor.fm/people-at-pyramid Process improvement, Lean Six Sigma, and the planning that decides a project before the work even starts, with our member Elena Varela. This week on People at Pyramid, we're spotlighting our member Elena Varela, a business manager at Drexel University who spends her days making complicated projects run smoothly. If you have ever watched a big initiative stall, drift, or collapse under its own weight, this conversation is for you. Elena works in process improvement, and she is a believer in the Lean Six Sigma approach and the DMAIC framework: Define, Measure, Analyze, Improve, Control. But the heart of what she does is simpler than the terminology sounds. Before any project starts, she gets the requirements clear and builds a charter everyone can agree on. Skip that planning, she says, and it always comes back later as bloat, rework, and a timeline nobody signed up for. She also talks about the human side of the job. A big part of managing projects is managing people: getting experts in a room, keeping them pointed in the same direction, and building the trust that keeps the work moving. Elena calls it herding cats, and she clearly loves it. We get into where AI tools fit, too. Elena and Vince trade stories about using them for the parts of the work nobody wants to do, and about what happens when you hand them the hard part instead. Then the conversation turns to something closer to Elena's heart: movies, storytelling, and why she is drawn to stories about human connection. Meet Elena, and hear why she is the kind of member who makes this community what it is. CHAPTERS: 0:00 - Meet Elena Varela, Business Manager at Drexel 3:00 - Project Management Best Practices 7:40 - Movies, Storytelling, and Human Connection 10:30 - A Show Recommendation and How to Connect GUEST LINKS: Elena Varela on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/elenajvarela/ ABOUT PEOPLE AT PYRAMID: People at Pyramid is the Pyramid Club's member spotlight podcast. Every episode, we sit down with one of our members to hear what they do, what drives them, and the stories that make them worth knowing. Hosted by Vince Quinn. SUBSCRIBE for a new member spotlight every other week. CONNECT: Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/people-at-pyramid/id1784545290 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7alEumoeEpbqgHzaugBPLZ Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdd93VlJAwBR_m7jDhPxq3agoS8iLuT4G People at Pyramid: https://feeds.transistor.fm/people-at-pyramid Vince Quinn on LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/vincequinn Interested in being featured on People at Pyramid? Register here Want help with your podcast? E-mail Vince Quinn vq@sbxproductions.com Want to learn about Pyramid Club Membership? Click here.

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  Episode #10

  Tax Law by Day, Fixer-Uppers on Weekends W/ Emerald Vaughan

  Aug 11, 20269 min

  Be a guest on People at Pyramid: https://feeds.transistor.fm/people-at-pyramid A paralegal, a law student, and a property manager all at once, and a plan built around tax law, with our newest member Emerald Vaughan. This week on People at Pyramid, we're spotlighting our newest member, Emerald Vaughan, who joined the Club just two weeks ago and is already running three careers at once. She is a paralegal by day, a law student by night, and a property manager on the weekends. Emerald walks us through what a paralegal really does, and why the job comes down to being a details person: reading contracts, drafting motions, and catching the small things that keep a client protected. From there she traces her path from debate-team captain to the courtroom-adjacent work she does now, and the moment she asked herself why she was not the attorney in the room. So she went to law school, and she is set on tax law. Her case for tax law is refreshingly practical. She likes finding a deal, and she likes helping people, and reducing what someone owes is one of the most direct ways to do both. For a lot of people, she points out, it is easier to trim expenses than to earn more. Then we get into her weekends. Emerald manages several properties and does much of the renovation work herself, from swapping a faucet to redoing a backsplash. Her advice for anyone intimidated by home projects is to start small and build up, and to remember her golden rule: measure twice, cut once, and if you mess up, call a contractor. Meet Emerald, and see why she is the kind of member you want to know. CHAPTERS: 0:00 - Meet Emerald Vaughan 2:05 - Why Tax Law 4:15 - Real Estate and DIY Renovations 7:00 - Taking On New Projects and How to Connect GUEST LINKS: Emerald Vaughan on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emeraldvaughan ABOUT PEOPLE AT PYRAMID: People at Pyramid is the Pyramid Club's member spotlight podcast. Every episode, we sit down with one of our members to hear what they do, what drives them, and the stories that make them worth knowing. Hosted by Vince Quinn. SUBSCRIBE for a new member spotlight every other week. Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/people-at-pyramid/id1784545290 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7alEumoeEpbqgHzaugBPLZ Watch on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdd93VlJAwBR_m7jDhPxq3agoS8iLuT4G People at Pyramid: https://feeds.transistor.fm/people-at-pyramid Vince Quinn on LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/vincequinn Interested in being featured on People at Pyramid? Register here Want help with your podcast? E-mail Vince Quinn vq@sbxproductions.com Want to learn about Pyramid Club Membership? Click here.

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  Episode #9

  How Golf and Networking Turned Into a Thriving Community W/ Yola Vital

  Jul 28, 202615 min

  This week we sit down with our member Yola Vital, owner of Recovery Space and founder of Green Girl Era, on how showing up built her business and her community in a brand new city. When Yola moved to Philadelphia, she did not know anyone. She was building a business, but the community was not there yet, and it wore on her. What turned it around was putting herself in the right rooms, the Pyramid Club among them, and letting the connections find her. Out of that came Green Girl Era, the women's golf and social club she launched in 2026. For Yola, golf is a networking engine first and a sport second. She goes for the conversations on the course, the lunches after, and the introductions that travel from Philadelphia to Ghana, Kenya, and beyond. The other side of her work is Recovery Space, the social service agency she owns. It grew from sober homes into transitional and emergency housing, case management, and partnerships with the district attorney's office and private landlords, serving people coming home from incarceration and rebuilding their lives. She talks about learning the business from the ground up, writing her own grants and proposals, and going all in to own her agency. Interested in being featured on People at Pyramid? Register here Want help with your podcast? E-mail Vince Quinn vq@sbxproductions.com Want to learn about Pyramid Club Membership? Click here.

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  Episode #8

  What's Next? Finding Purpose Beyond Success W/ Charley Timmins

  Jul 14, 202618 min

  What does it take to find purpose once you've already "made it"? This week we sit down with our member Charley Timmins, who has been part of the Pyramid Club for eight years and spends his days helping talented professionals get unstuck and figure out what's next. Charley calls himself the "what's next" guy, and it fits. He works with high achievers who have built careers, companies, and wealth, then reach the moment where they ask, is this all there is? His answer starts with purpose. Not the quota, not the title, but the impact you have beyond yourself. We talked about why community matters more than ever. As Charley put it, the pandemic proved we can't do things alone, and real connection doesn't happen through a screen. We have to be in each other's presence. That belief is a big part of why he values the Club, and why he tells new members to give it a full year before they judge it. The heart of the conversation is a story. Charley walks through how he helped a 62-year-old consultant prove his irreplaceable value to a company that was about to move on without him, using nothing more than a roll of butcher paper and the history of a product only he understood. The outcome changed that man's retirement, and his legacy. It's a warm, generous conversation about purpose, community, and helping people become who they were meant to be. Meet Charley Timmins on this week's episode. GUEST LINKS: Email Charley: cjt@CharlesTimmins.com Connect with Charley on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charleytimmins/ ABOUT PEOPLE AT PYRAMID: People at Pyramid is the Pyramid Club's member-spotlight podcast, hosted by Vince Quinn. Every episode, we sit down with one of our members to hear who they are, what they do, and what makes them worth knowing. It is a look inside a community built on the people who make it what it is. SUBSCRIBE for new episodes every two weeks. CONNECT: Listen on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/people-at-pyramid/id1784545290 Listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7alEumoeEpbqgHzaugBPLZ Host: https://linkedin.com/in/vincequinn Show website: https://feeds.transistor.fm/people-at-pyramid

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